ANWESEND deals with modern telecommunications and explores space and time through music. The ensemble is spread out in different rooms - connected only acoustically and via video conference.
The audience moves through the different rooms and experiences very individual, sonic sensations - live and through the laptop speakers.
Composer Vladimir Guichef Bogacz works with everything a video conference has to offer – connection errors, stretching, distortion, latency and fragmentation become art.
Online we are always "live" and meet at the same time in a digital space.
Simultaneity - what does that mean in this context?
Communication over long distances automatically leads to distortions and delays. Action and reaction never take place simultaneously - an orchestra always plays "after the beat".
What happens when the distances between the signal and the musician are further enlarged? What happens when this conductor-musician contact is transmitted by a signal that first travels around the world?
Is there a more authentic “now” than another?
Who is "right"? - The conductor or the distant musicians? - Or ultimately even an external person who can perceive both?
ANWESEND talks about the plurality of the "now" and addresses the principles of non-written human communication:
What is the significance of eye contact in dialogue? What value does the exchange of glances and facial expressions have for digital images of ourselves? Is communication more real and deeper when we breathe the same air?
TEAM
| COMPOSITION / CONCEPT |
Vladimir Guichef Bogacz |
| STAGE / LIGHT DESIGN |
Paul Pape |
Performances
09/07/2022 – Netzwerk Seilerei, Frankfurt
27/09/2023 – Villa Elisabeth, Berlin
Is there a more authentic now than another?
ANWESEND deals with modern telecommunications and explores space and time through music. The ensemble is spread out in different rooms - connected only acoustically and via video conference.
The audience moves through the different rooms and experiences very individual, sonic sensations - live and through the laptop speakers.
Composer Vladimir Guichef Bogacz works with everything a video conference has to offer – connection errors, stretching, distortion, latency and fragmentation become art.
Online we are always "live" and meet at the same time in a digital space.
Simultaneity - what does that mean in this context?
Communication over long distances automatically leads to distortions and delays. Action and reaction never take place simultaneously - an orchestra always plays "after the beat".
What happens when the distances between the signal and the musician are further enlarged? What happens when this conductor-musician contact is transmitted by a signal that first travels around the world?
Is there a more authentic “now” than another?
Who is "right"? - The conductor or the distant musicians? - Or ultimately even an external person who can perceive both?
ANWESEND talks about the plurality of the "now" and addresses the principles of non-written human communication:
What is the significance of eye contact in dialogue? What value does the exchange of glances and facial expressions have for digital images of ourselves? Is communication more real and deeper when we breathe the same air?
TEAM
Is there a more authentic now than another?
